Investigation of Male Searching for Female Silkworm using an Artificial Pheromone in Free-Space Environment Muhamad Rausyan Fikri (a), Mohammad Farhan Ramdhany (b), Djati Wibowo Djamari (c)
(a) Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Sampoerna University
LAvenue Building Lt 7, Jl Raya Pasar Minggu Kav. 16, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta 12780
muhamad.fikri[at]sampoernauniversity.ac.id
(b) Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Sampoerna University
LAvenue Building Lt 7, Jl Raya Pasar Minggu Kav. 16, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta 12780
muhamad.fikri[at]sampoernauniversity.ac.id
(c) Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Sampoerna University
LAvenue Building Lt 7, Jl Raya Pasar Minggu Kav. 16, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta 12780
muhamad.fikri[at]sampoernauniversity.ac.id
Abstract
A male insect can exhibit an interesting motion and behaviors when it detects the female pheromone. The behavior performed by a male insect is frequently used for bio-robotics research inspiration especially for various applications such as tele-operated and autonomous source locating robot. In this research, we investigate the male searching for female behavior by changing the source of pheromone using an artificial pheromone. This research is conducted by using three male insects, where, each insect performs three trials and the environment we choose is in a free-space environment. In this research, we obtain that the three male insects can perform satisfactorily without having any hurdle in free-space scenario using artificial pheromone. Therefore, from this result we can conclude that the motion behavior can be applied in the real robot for searching mission.
